"Fog" by Charles Dickens
Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and
meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of
shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog
on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog creeping into the
cabooses of collier-brigs; fog lying out on the yards, and hovering in
the rigging of great ships; fog drooping on the gunwales of barges and
small boats. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich
pensioners, wheezing by the firesides of their wards; fog in the stem
and bowl of the afternoon pipe of the wrathful skipper, down in his
close cabin; fog cruelly pinching the toes and fingers of his shivering
little ’prentice boy on deck. Chance people on the bridges peeping over
the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if
they were up in a balloon, and hanging in the misty clouds.
[Source: Bleak House (1852-1853)]
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| Erith waterscape |
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| Derelict docks and urban regeneration |
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| Jetty rots |
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| Beware |
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| None shall pass! |
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| Industrial docklands |
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| None shall pass # 2 |
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| None shall pass # 3 |
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| None shall pass # 4 |
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| Industrial Docklands # 2 |
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| The way ahead |
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| ??? |
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| ??? |
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| Outflow |
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| Seven footballs |
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| None shall pass # 5 |
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| Attack of the 50 foot robots! |
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| A splash of colour |
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| Absolutely none shall pass |
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| Windmills in the fog |
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| Where once mammoths drank ... |
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| Territorial pissing |
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| Modern hunter and modern mammoth |
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| Seabirds at sewage outfall |
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| Millennium Project Cycle Network | | | | |
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| Today? |
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| Long ago? (Note: mammoths had been extinct for 10,000 years before pottery in use here ) |
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| Waterworks |
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| Peep hole |
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| The ??? lighthouse |
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| The past in the present |
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| Beware the French |
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| Keeping watch over the cannons |
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| Good question |
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| Territorial pissing # 2 |
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| Beware Germany |
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| The hulks |
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| Enter Woolwich |
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| None shall pass # 6 |
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| or what? |
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| 215 miles |
